The Zespri Board last night approved plans for a new office building on its current site in Mount Maunganui.

Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ) welcomes the New Zealand Horticulture Export Authority (HEA) Amendment Bill passed late yesterday, says chief executive Mike Chapman.

Inland Revenue (IRD) is not one for acknowledging the holiday season.

The voters have spoken – twice!

Our thoughts and best wishes go out to the people in Marlborough and North Canterbury after the series of earthquake that have hit those regions recently.

It is coming up to that time of the year when grape pricing contracts are being considered.

New Zealand investors have swung behind Synthase Biotech with an injection of $800,000 in the start-up’s first capital raising outside of its founding group.

Eradication of the great white butterfly – a threat to brassicas including forage crops and commercial vegetables – is a world-first achievement, says Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy.

One new director and nine new Shareholders’ Councillors will take office following the Fonterra annual meeting on Thursday.

New Zealand companies need to step up their efforts, in view of the hope for better lamb prices this season evaporating faster than a summer shower.